Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-02-04

The BROOKLYN bridge idiots have been out
done hv T. !. Baldwin, "A san Francisco
tghtrope walker who jumped from hal
luuu 1000 feet up IN the air last Sunday ni
tciu1on. His feat was witnessed 10y l2,UUl
people in an inclosure outside Golden Gate
park 10 the basket was attached an enOr-
muu, white canvas parachute about 10 feet
long closed up. and with fixed trapeze. At
Baldwin's signal the rope attached to the
parachute was paid ont until tritie over a
Thousand feet had been reeled OIL the wind
lass Baldwin was then seen to step ON the
rim of the basket and grasping the trapeze
in his hands, gave "A shout and Jumped IN
to space For "a second athlete and canvas
attached fell with lightning speed, while a
great scream went up from below. Anoth-
er second and the parachute opened and the
fall was 81 visibly arrested that the machine
and man halted in mid air like "A great
strange bird Then gravitatiun asserted il
self and once more Baldwin began to fall.
The rush downward increased with every
foot until the velocity was frightful, and
again people began to scream An instant
and Baldwin was crashing through branches
of small waffle trees. Thousands rushed
to his aid, but, picking himself up, he threw
back somersaults, ran a 5O-yard squirt and
said he would make the drop 1900 feet next
time.
Several barns on the stock farm Of }, w.
Allen at East Syracuse. n. y, were burned
SUNDAY morning and - head of fancy cat
tie persisted in the flames.
Mary Baker, the fasting girl of Indiana,
is said 10 he dying and liable to drop off at
any hour She has gone without food for
~ days.
Captain Setback. of the Chicago detec-
lives, claims to have discovered a plot To
either rescue the anarchists now i'm jail, or
cheat the gallows 10y blowing them up.
Twenty persons have been drowned by
the laundering of the British steamer Blair
\thol in the Black sea
The supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo-,
| Monday granted a stay of execution until
| April IA II. NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell,
| the trunk murderer, pending an appeal
| for new trial The execution was to have
taken place last week Thursday
Miss Cora Boulder, attending a fancy
| dress bah at Freeport, Kan, last week
| Thursday, accidentally set her hat ON fire
from gas jet and was burned to death in
| the presence Of hundred people
The British ship Kapunda, which left
| onion December II with a load Of emf
/ grants for Fremantle in the western part
| of Australia, ran into an unknown vessel
of the brazilian coast last week and was
sunk Three hundred emgrants of those
on board went down with the ship The
rest escaped in the boats and reached the
coast of Brazil in safety.
Prof. Wood of Harvard college reports
| that arsenic has been found in the stomach
of Oliver Sleeper. who died in Cambridge
| Mass, in 1881 while living in the house
| with Mrs Sarah Robinson, the alleged Som
erville child poisoner, Field, Mrs. Robin
sons brotherm-law with whom she lived
in Chelsea, died with symptoms of arsenic
poisoning, so his physician states, and his
! body is To be exhumed and examined.
Sleeper and Field make the seventh and
| eighth supposed victims of Mrs Robinson's
mania. Her trial will take place this spring,
News comes from Jones county, Ga. of
a terrible tragedy which took place there
last Saturday. Two boys aged 10 and 3,
while in the woods gathering brush, were
set upon by Sam Bivens aged II, and muir
dered with an axe. Charles Rivers, the
father Of the boys, headed a searching par
| ty and found the bodies hidden in gully
at O'Clock Sunday morning. Bivens is II
Jail and has confessed.
Ten years ago Miss Julia A. Malcolm, q
school teacher at New Haven, Ct, had iOk
mgly presented to her 10y friend a deed
of certain lands in Colorado which at the
time were considered worthless by the own
en-. She hal nearly forgotten the matter
when. last week letter came from Colo
RADIO offering her $3.50, 900 for the land, 1
rich mine having been discovered upon it
The offer was accepted